One reason this approach is better suited for J than other languages is that saving state is more often than not an easy one liner in J, while more often than not one line per variable in cobol 2005s. It explains the need for them to implement a magic yield keyword, to save a bit of typing.
----- Original Message ---- From: "Miller, Raul D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Programming forum <[email protected]>; Programming forum <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 28, 2006 5:07:55 PM Subject: RE: [Jprogramming] Neat coroutine implementation Oleg Kobchenko wrote: > Also coroutine is more a syntactic sugar, not an > implementation. And, in J, it makes a lot of sense that coroutine syntactic sugar be locale flavored. Locales, after all, are J's syntactic and semantic mechanism for associating persistent state with names. -- Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
